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Parkdrive Wrote:

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> Bluerevolution Wrote:

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> > RVP at Etihad apparently- fancy having Arsenal

> as

> > our feeder club ! ;-)

>

>

> I'm sure he'll be at about as useful Na$ri and

> Clichy. Terrific signings eh? As for elbowing,

> coming from the supporters of the rags is

> laughable, Roy (the mad dog) Keane broken leg

> specialist used to play for your mob didn't he?

> That doyen of the late tackle Scholes still does

> doesn't he? In recent seasons we've had the likes

> of Diaby suffer a broken and dislocated ankle

> during an end of season game against Sunderland,

> which went unpunished, not even a yellow card. So

> when opposition fans, especially the rags, try to

> take the moral high ground and act with righteous

> indignation I just smile. Pot and kettle.



Er, the elbowing comments actually came from a Citeh and a 'ammers fan.

If only you just did smile...

Parkdrive

Parkdrive

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Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Parkdrive Wrote:

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> > For those that are quick to accuse and seem to

> > have very selective memories.

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> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-

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> > 345313/Van-Persie-unsure-Todd-blow.html

>

> Jeez! 2005. What are you an elephant?



Better that than a twitching churchill dog!! Just trying to balance things up. I wonder if posters on here will be as quick to jump on the bandwagon when an allegation is levelled at one of their own? Nah

Parkdrive

Parkdrive

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Atticus Wrote:

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> Seems a bit cloudy tonight Blue Moon, you will win

> f' all this season and that is exactly what you

> and your arrogant lot deserve. you thought you had

> the league by November, here come the big boys...

> I despise UTD but anyday before you, hopefully

> spurs.


United? Really??? Not as long as I have breath in my body. As for arrogant it must be a Manc thing, it's obviously spreading from the neighbours, who take the prize all day long for arrogance.

Parkdrive

Parkdrive

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I'll find it hard to support a team captained by Terry.


On an even more shocking note, football tribalism plumbs new depths with the deaths in Egypt. Shocked and saddened in equal measure. For all the verbal hostility on here, the scenes on TV yesterday were horrific, and makes wonder if scenes such as these could ever be repeated here. I'd like to think not.

El Pibe

El Pibe

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Football violence may be a fact of life in Egypt, but the shocking levels have little to do with tribalism and everything to do with the political situation.


Noone is quite sure how to interpret last nights events until the dust begins to settle, but a couple of theories are doing the rounds.


Despite wider opposition, many ultra leaders are quite cosy with the military leadership who have used them previously to foment civil unrest. It's possible last night was orchestrated to give SCAF (Supreme Council of the Armed Forces - basically the junta that took over when Mubarak stepped down) an excuse to cling on to power, but far more likely is that the violence was a sign that the Ultra leadership have lost control.


If the latter then this was a poke in the eye of the authorities (and a literal stab in the gut of the police deemed to have been Mubarak's poodles and a target of particular hatred) to say get the hell out of power and to move democratic reform on more quickly.


Could it happen here? In short no.


Could it happen somewhere like Spain with 50% youth unemployment and clubs who have long tolerated and colluded with their Ultra support (think Barca and Real particularly)? At a pinch I suppose, but there simply isn't the groundswell of anger at the political situation there to do so.


After the collapse of the Euro and the Spanish economy.....maybe.....

Chippy Minton

Chippy Minton

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The crappy new look BBC site is now reporting Terry is going to lose the England captaincy.


Rio's probably a bit past it now. Lampard's also past his best. Gerrard seems to be hampered more and more by injury. I don't think it is right for Rooney.


Time for the next generation? Step forward Phil Jones?

Otta

Otta

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He's as old as Gerrard & Co. Nothing wrong with a young captain who can grow more and more in to the role.


The whole Terry thing is troubling. The case should NEVER have been put back until after the euros. However, being as it has been put back, is it right that he be punished in any way, before having his day in court?


If we as a country are going to live by "innocent until proven guilty", then surely until he is found guilty in a court, he shouldn't be punished. IF he is found innocent at trial, the FA will have egg on their faces.


Personally I don't think he should ever have been given the armband back in th first place, but he was, and I'm not sure it's right to strip him of it because he's been accused of something.

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